David Cohen, the New York social service agency’s former executive director, was sentenced to a year’s worth of three-day weekends in jail and must pay $650,000 in restitution in the 20-year kickback scam. More ▸

The announced shutdown of New York-based FEGS amid uncertainty at another major Jewish agency, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, leaves the region’s social service sector and Jewish community reeling. More ▸

New York State’s attorney general said his office may broaden its investigation of the nonprofit agency, whose CEO and other top officials were convicted for stealing $9 million in a kickback scheme. More ▸